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Eh, they're big girls, if they want to get offended, they can do so without a big strong man to get all offended on their behalf. Patriarchy is dead.

The female gamers I've played with, even going back 20 years to college, have been very heavily biased towards playing fighters (rangers, barbarians, archers) and killing the holy hell out of anything that looks at them funny. Role-playing occurs sometimes in the process, but they sure don't play Bards or Druids or fruity Toreador!

The only female gamer I've played with who played a Bard was into girls, if yanno what I mean.

All of the Druid players have been dudes.

On the other hand, it seems like only the girls want to play Rogues. In a couple decades of D&D/GURPS/etc. I can count the number of guys playing Rogues on one finger, while we've had a couple of the girls try one out.

As for the logic that 4E is 'reaching out to girl gamers' and then specifically saying that they are removing the classes 'traditionally played by girls' from the 4E launch? Yeah. That takes some flexibility.

Me likes Fighter. Me hack & slash. *chuckles*

All in all, those questions are only offensive because they seem to think of us as tiny and fragile, poor girls lost in that big bad world of D&D, with all those dribling guys ready to kill your fragile pink-wearing druid/bard (clutching a teddy bear, of course. For protection only). ¬¬

I'm not much of an Eberron fan, but the airships and lightning rails were good for travel in that campaign. Since Golarion is a little more tech-forward than your average D&D campaign, does something similar exist?

Ugh. Please no. :(

It's not exactly material for a blogpost, but I really would like to see information about the great beginning. How Golarion was formed, you know, big bang and stuff? Because those Aboleths ruling the first humans were so simple and so great at the same time!

Oh, someone said before, I think it was Lilith, about the behind-the-scenes. I love those kind of stuff :)

half naked in an adventure party? THIS IS HALF NAKED and she was the most charismatic character in a magazine based on D&D here ( Holy Avenger and the character name is Niele)

and this is Victory , the daughter of a god and a mortal who came to wake up in our world some day and had to face a Cthulhu. She was also a very trustworthy creature and, for Gods sake, saved our world!

and, for the rest of SirUrza's post, that just comes to justify the novelization of the AP!!!!

the players may play the Iconics, we, in the forums can start to assume whats going on in theyre heads, but this way we will never really know.

so, here I state: I WANT RISE OF THE RUNELORDS NOVEL!!!

Noooooo! And here I was, thinking that I was free from Niele! Charismatic? The only reason people like her it's because of... do you really need me to keep on? And Victory?! Blergh.

Spare me from Cassaro's big head!

*sorry. Had to take that anger from a particular fanboy in Brazil who actually thinks he's oh-the-big-rpg-writer*

1. Writer
2. Game Designer
3. Campaign Setting Designer (seriously).

Ended up as a dentist *sighs* Can I say? BOOOORING!

Dentist here :)

Olinda, Brazil ** spoiler omitted **

Hey! I was born in Recife! Living now in Vitória, though *snif*

I'm not really worried about that, but to put my two cents in this discussion, I'm under the impression that WotC is trying to put 3ed in pieces so they can rebuild a brand "new world" and "mithology" for D&D. The only reason I see why they didn't do it for 3ed was because the change in rules was already too tantalizing to also change background history.

I agree they could have changed the names, but then again, people who recognized the deities would then claim, "hey, WotC is trying to sell me cats disguised as rabbits!" (gee, is there that saying in English? It exists in Brazil... [:)] -- I guess the right saying in English is wolf disguised as sheep? :P I don't know... :D)

*stretching sticky hands*

Gimmmmeeeeeee!

Well, I didn't get any of this, although my mother (who bought me my first books) always was a bit uncomfortable with it. People in Brazil just give you a weird look.

OOOHHH, better yet! We've had quite a few cases where some guys kiiled a girl, and another two killed their parents and when they were caught, started blaming The Books.

The media went crazy! Books that could make you kill! Luckily, some reporters did their job right and showed some shrinks telling that RPG isn't the antichrist...

It's some kind of fashion here: kill your parents for money, and try to get sympathy from population by blaming some book (RPG, particularly -- I'm waiting to see someone blame Harry Potter books), movie or videogame.